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(2) Orchis Morio, L. — Suss. Phyt. ii. 448, N. s. 
(3) Orchis maculata, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
(4) Orchis lati/olia, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. The palmate shape 
of the pale tubers in this and the last-named species renders the name 
sufficiently appropriate. 
(5) Arum macidatum, L. — Wore. 
(6) Lotus corniculatus, L. — Hants. Trans. Medico-Bot. Soc. of 
London, 1832-33, p. 89. 
(7) Alopecurus pratensis, L. — Surr. (Kew). This seems an unlikely 
plant to have received the name, but we have heard it so called. 
Dead Man’s, or Men’s, Hand. (1) Orchis maculata,W — E. Bord. 
Bot. E. Bord. See Dead Man’s Fingers. 
(2) Orchis mascula, L. — Glou., Hants., Suss., Warw. 
(3) Nephrodium Filix-mas, Eich., and some other ferns, from the 
appearance of the young fronds before they begin to open, resembling 
a closed fist. Lothians and Border Country. 
(4) Laminaria digitata, Lam. — Nemnich. 
Dead Man’s Neeshin. The spores of Lycoperdon^ especially L. 
Bovista, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Dead Man’s Thumb. Orchis mascida, L. — Ger. N. & Q. 1, x. 
225. 
‘ Then round the meddowes did she walke. 
Catching each flower by the stalke ; 
Such as within the meddowes grew. 
As dead mail's thumbs and harebell blew.’ 
Eoxburghe Ballads. 
E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord., where the name is rightly supposed to have 
been given ‘ from the colour or shape of the tuber ; children tell one 
another with mysterious awe that the root was once the thumb of 
some unburied murderer.’ Another version of the above-quoted 
ballad has for the last line, ‘ The dead man’s thumb, an hearb all blew,’ 
and it is on this account that Hal. and Wr. speak of it as a blue 
flower. 
Dead Man’s Toe. Laminaria digitata, Lam. — Hemnich. 
Dead Men’s Bellows. Ajuga reptans, L. — E. Bord. ‘ A name 
which it shares with Biyitalis, Pedicularis sylvatica, and the Boleti.’ — 
Bot. E. Bord. p. 162 ; at p. 156 Pedicularis palustris is so called. 
Dead Nettle (in Turn. Lib. Dede Nettell). A name pretty gener- 
ally applied to various species of Lamium, especially L. album and L. 
purpureum. Although nettle -like in foliage they do not sting. Lyte 
includes Stachys sylvatica, L., which is still so called in Yks. (Wake- 
field), under the name. Prior, p. 64. 
Dead Nettle, Red. Lamium purpureum, L. — Prior, p. 64. 
Dead Nettle, White. Lamium album, L. — N. Yks. Prior, p. 64. 
Dead Nettle, Yellow. Lamium Galeohdolon, Cr. — Prior, p. 64. 
Dead Tongue. CEnanthe crocata, L. — Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 ; 
Lane. (Eurness), E. D. S. Lane. Gloss.; Westm.; T. Lawson, in Pay’s 
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